Creative Genius

Well I don't know if you can tell what this is so I will explain.  Before the party I had an ah-ha moment.  Cara, her cousin and I were shopping at target and we were looking at the headbands that I always want to buy but convince myself not to because to me they are kind of expensive.  So I had my paper roses on the brain and I have been thinking of what to do with them and then it hit me.  We walked to the health and beauty department where we found inexpensive comfortable headbands and bought them.  We went home and made paper roses and covered the headbands in pretty ribbon and here is my finished product a very pretty headband.  I think I'm going to start making these to sell them I just have to figure out where.  I was thinking etsy then I was thinking craft fairs, but I don't want to pay for a spot and then waste my weekend at a craft fair, so its still up in the air on where exactly they will be sold, but while I think about it I will start making an inventory. Pin It Now!

The Baby shower a finished product

Well the baby shower was about a week ago now and I'm happy that its over and now I can be a little selfish with my art again.  I enjoyed creating a special day for Mommy to be Bree and future baby Lily, but it was a lot of work for me, mom, and future Aunt Cara.  Now we get to relax and wait for baby Lily's arrival.  I can't wait to meet her, spoil her and help scrapbook her life with her Aunt! The first picture that I'm sharing with you is a very preggo mommy to be with her little cousins and helper for the day, then the finished tables (I just kinda wish we made the diaper cakes a little bit bigger).  Then we have my very creative and functional wishing wells (each guest brought baby Lily a book for her library) and as you can tell we used laundry baskets (so mommy can use them to store baby Lily's toys or clothes or all the diapers she has).  Lastly you see the game gifts that my mom created for the guest to win each had a theme (from left to right are a gardening basket, movie basket, bath basket and then there is the easter kitchen basket).  The guest were impressed and walked away with a full stomach.  The food was amazing, we had everyone bring a dish (and there was some great food to be had).  I know that the party was appreciated by all present, but boy was I tried when it was finally done.   

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Frog LFB back

So here is the back of my frog lfb page.  I think it came out pretty cute.  This isn't the vest picture of it but oh well.  Not all my pictures can be prefect.  Hopefully more art soon. Pin It Now!

The Princess and the Frog

Well I was at it again today.  Little Fat Book Club isn't for a month but I thought I would get a head start on it. Can you guess the Theme... Well the theme is frogs, which at first I was thinking what am I going to do with frogs?  Then yesterday while blog hopping (cause I can) I found this gorgeous image from some variation of "The Princess and the Frog"  I cut the image out and then "painted" the gold areas of the image with gold smooch.  Then I took a nice piece of paper from a Prima Marketing mat stack (it was the Alice in Wonderland themed one) I altered the paper with swipes of gold paint from Ranger.  I then stamped a Fancy Pants stamp in Purple Pansy ink (CTMH), then I took green smooch and traced all the stems on the stamped image and colored the edges of the buds in the same color.  The last thing I did with the stamped image was color all the "buds" and centers of the flowers in white smooch.  I stamped butterflies (one from Fancy Pants and two from Tim Holtz) in embossing ink (Distress from Ranger) and embossed them one was in a red/orange color the other two in purple.  Then I stamped what I would consider a Queens Anne's lace like flower in embossing powder then embossed that in white.  I glued down my princess and then foam dotted my frog.  Lastly I embossed inked the words "The Princess and The Frog" and embossed in gold embossing powder.  I think this side came out perfect.  I'm going to use another image of some cute vintage frogs, but for now I'm done for the night it is almost time for Big Bang theory!! I can't wait.

As for life at this moment I'm good.  I passed my final certification exam!  I was extremely nervous and trying not to think about it for the past month because at the time on top of trying to study I was dealing with the death of my ferret and another one being sick.  So I didn't think I did well.  Now I can sub which will be nice.  It looks like things are starting to go my way again.  Stormy my sicky ferret is doing a little better.  She is eating hard food again, she sleeps a lot.  I'm not ready to reintroduce her to the rest of the clan cause she is no where near a hundred percent and I want still watch what she is eating.  Other wise it is hard to see what she is eating compared to three other ferrets lol.  They can be a handful as a group, but I love them. Pin It Now!

Famous Women Swap

Well I know I have been MIA again.  Lots of stuff going on and I wasn't too sure if I was going to get to this months swap nor did I feel really inspired by them, which happens sometimes.  But after a lot of thought I decided to do the vintage room's Famous Woman swap.  I went with women that inspire me and that I grew up with, which is a little different cause it may not be people that the people with in the group may have picked.  I typically try to pick people that I know that other people wont choose.  So I went with Marlyn who I grow to love she is just a beautiful woman and I just love her sex appeal.  Then Madonna who I have grown up with.  A baby in the early 80s with a teen mom (when teen mom's weren't cool) I listened Madonna, Cyndi, Aerosmith the list goes on and on.  So although I don't love the "newer" Madonna I liked her earlier stuff.  And Last but not least I chose Gwen Stefani.  I love No Doubt and Gwen on her own.  I think to be honest she was one of the first female rockers I heard.  So as you can see they come together as a series with the red, black and white colors and Tim Holtz stamp images on a red painted background.  I also embellished their lips.  Marilyn with pink smooch and Madonna and Gwen with Clear accents.  I love how they came out I kinda want them for myself but that isn't what it comes down to.  The point is to swap with friends and I hope these cards find there way to someone who will enjoy them just as much as I did creating them. Pin It Now!

Show some skin in wax

Well A new chapter has opened for Little Fat Book Club.  We are going to a new venue this coming Tuesday.  I'm pretty excited to get with the ladies because I haven't seen them since January.  So the theme for this month was Show some Skin! so This is where I went with it.  I went with beeswax cause it's my new favorite medium.  I think the outcome is good and I can't wait to trade it at lfb club.

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Went off to NYC again.

Saturday I went to NYC again.  I really enjoy it as does my family.  This time we went to see Phantom of the Opera, which is a childhood dream come true.  As some of you already know my memory is kind of fuzzy when it comes to my childhood.  One thing I remember is being a child and looking through the Phantom of the Opera program my mother brought home when she saw it.  She would take it away and tell me that it wasn't for me to look at.  I would always end up finding it again.  It came around here a couple years ago and I wanted to see it but it didn't work out, so when Dad suggested we bring Mom for her birthday.  I was on it.  We watched the movie the week before and the build up to the day was driving me crazy.  I was beyond happy to see it finally and it was AWESOME!!! I enjoyed every minute some parts were slower, but over all it was great.  I wanted to get the CD but they wanted $50 insane!!!  I'm going to wait and find it here locally for probably $20. 

The rest of the day was fun we went to the NBC experience which was neat.  We saw where they tape NBC Nightly news, The Jim Fallon Late night show, and Saturday night Live.  I don't think it is something I would go to again, but it was neat to experience once.  Then I made the family walk 30 blocks to go to a stamp store.  The Ink Pad was a cute store and had tons of stamps but it was too much to process and it was too hot really enjoy.  I ended up with one stamp that I wanted.  I'm not sure if I can convince the family to go again.  Probably not.  Oh well. 

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